Zulu Paul Kirk The KwaZulu-Natal government is launching a probe into the province’s MEC for Social Welfare and Population Development, Gideon Zulu, for alleged nepotism and misappropriation of state funds. Premier Lionel Mtshali’s representative, Mahlathi Tembe, said the investigation team, to be announced through a provincial edition of the Government Gazette next week, would probe […]
Suren Pillay CROSSFIRE The opening epigraph to Salman Rushdie’s fascinating account of his journey to freshly post-revolution Nicaragua opens with the following limerick: There was a young girl in Nicaragua who smiled as she rode on a jaguar, they returned from the ride, with the girl inside and the smile on the face of the […]
I’m putting the following comments at the top of this week’s column in the obscure hope that someone, somewhere in M-Net might pay attention to them. As I say it’s an obscure hope. M-Net, as a rule, don’t pay much attention to ought but their own council. They certainly don’t demonstrate much discernible consideration for […]
Paul Kirk In the strangest address to the KwaZulu- Natal legislature for years, Dumisane Makhaye, the provincial housing MEC and an African National Congress national executive committee member, this week turned a speech on racism into a play recital. The play, an untitled Makhaye production, is so disjointed as to be barely comprehensible, but has […]
The participants in the annual Durban- Johannesburg Commemorative Run are there for the sheer joy of motorcycling Gavin Foster It’s hard to get an adrenalin rush riding a 65-year-old motorcycle for more than 600km at a speed of 60kph, but there are other compensations. You get to see more of the countryside, you get to […]
Jane Rosenthal STAMLAND by Karel Schoeman (Human & Rousseau) BULLER SE PLAN by Ingrid Winterbach (Human & Rousseau) Interestingly, Karel Schoeman begins this travelogue by shedding some of his baggage,in more ways than one. His shoulder bag goes missing and he is obliged to sleep over in the airport and have his first view of […]
John Matshikiza WITH THE LID OFF ‘You’re going to where this time?!” said the voice on the other end of the phone. I thought she was interested in the controversial nature of my destination, but in fact she merely wanted to register her astonishment that I was getting into another aircraft and flying to yet […]
ACT Brumbies captain Brett Robinson has been cleared to play in Saturday’s Super 12 clash against The Stormers in Cape Town despite injuring his knee in training. Robinson needed several stitches to the cut but has been passed fit as the Brumbies chase their first Super 12 win in South Africa. ACT coach Edddie Jones […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Vadodara | Friday 9.00am. SOUTH Africa have posted a strong total of 282/5 in their alotted 50 overs in the fourth one-dayer against India at Vadodara. Jacques Kallis who was 81 not-out played superbly well, especially after he was responsible for the dismissal of Gary Kirsten (71). Kallis hit some towering sixes off […]
THE government is securing the release and return of 14 South African fishermen detained on their ship in a Moroccan port for over a month for alleged illegal fishing. “The Department of Foreign Affairs, through its embassy in Rabat, is assisting with arrangements for the return of the seamen,” the foreign and transport departments said. […]